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A Message
From Pastor Maridel - May 2010
Thomas Lynch is a
Funeral Director and he is a poet. In his
book, “Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal
Trade,” he writes about
his father who is also a Funeral Director.
Lynch writes:
As a
funeral director,
he was accustomed to random and unreasonable damage.
He had learned to fear….He
saw peril in
everything, disaster was ever at hand.
Some mayhem with our name on it
lurked around the edges of our
neighborhood waiting for a lapse of parental oversight to spirit us
away. In the most innocent of enterprises,
he saw
danger. In every football game he saw
the ruptured spleen, the death by drowning in every backyard pool,
leukemia in
every bruise, broken necks on trampolines, the deadly pox or fever in
every rash
or bug bite…So whenever I or one of my siblings would ask to go
here or there
or do this or that, my father’s first response was almost always,
“No!” He had just buried
someone doing that very
thing.
Do you ever
wonder what it would be like if we could lose
our fear of death? What if we could
truly see death not as an ending, but as a new adventure?
Playwright, Eugene O’Neill
hinted at a
possible answer with his little known play: “Lazarus
Laughed.” The play was not a
commercial success—it
closed a week after it opened on Broadway years ago.
Nonetheless, it begins where the
Bible story
leaves off. Lazarus has been called back
from the dead by Jesus, his friend. He
had been buried four whole days when Jesus came to the village of
Bethany, the
stone was rolled back from the tomb, and the gift of life was given
back to
him. ....Read More
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